Armani Prive Cologne Spray Pierre de Lune Giorgio Armani for women and men

this perfume is my favorite and im using it since 2006. on skin after a few hours i cant feel it but on clothes it stays for more than 10h. i love it

It's really MagnifiScent!
A brochure I brought was written "It is modern reformulation of Marie Antoinette's perfume"- If you had smelled this once, you already knew it's not spiel at all. This has an dignity.
It make me imagine a real Mademoiselle I've never seen anyway.

The first thing I get is Neopol, the furniture polish, but as with many utterly fabulous perfumes the opening belies the overall fragrance. I am a novice when it comes to Iris and have yet to try Hiris, although it is on my list. Pierre de Lune is lovely but I don't enjoy it as much as Cuir Amethyste or Eclat de Jamin.

Despite the fact that I don't like that much the violets, this fragrance is really beautiful.
It opens with a hit of iris and violets. I can't smell nothing else even hours after the first spray.
Well...7/10

Several weeks ago I stopped in the Armani boutique in San Francisco but already had fragrance on (several in fact as I had been testing all afternoon at Barney's and Saks) so I settled for smelling it on the paper strip. It was lovely and I carried that small piece of paper with me all evening.

Yesterday I went back in wearing nothing since I had been obsessing over it for weeks. I almost bought it since tax returns had just come back but decided to test on skin and see how it worked with my skin chemistry and how the longevity was...

So glad I did. It was spectacular for the first 30 minutes...a beautiful Violet and Iris combo with a subtle and dry woodsy base. The Violet is natural, velvety and slightly sweet but not sugary. I love Violet but more often than not I end up getting this candy note mixed with artificial grape in the Violet frags I try. From the Iris I got both the floral aspect as well as a healthy dose of Orris, rooty and a little green. The wood was like a cross between Oak and Birch, very lovely. I was not able to sniff out the Cassie (Mimosa/Acacia Farnesiana NOT Cassia aka Chinese Cinnamon) but did detect a not quite Violet/Iris powdery note that I'm guessing is due to the Cassie. Sillage was moderate but I would have liked it to be a bit stronger.

But then about 30 minutes in is went to an almost skin scent and turned to very simple, soapy, still with a bit of the wood base, boring scent. I could not believe that what started as such a spectacular fragrance in less then an hour had turned into...well something so disappointing. I mean, it was still pretty but nothing unique or amazing. It smelled like the dry down to a dozen other common department store juices. Very sad but so glad I tried it on my skin before dropping a rather large chunk of change on this...

Because of the awesome opening I will leave this as a like because if I could afford to I would buy bottle after bottle and just keep reapplying every half hour...

Back to my "perfect Iris/Violet" hunt!

Try before buying and don't trust the tester strip.

Love the name of the fragrance, but the scent did not live up in any way to what the name conjured up...This opened on a loud, brash note of purple-grape candy, which lasted long enough for me to consider an alcohol scrub. Eventually, the dry-down revealed a much smoother, vaguely powdery violet-iris note. The dry-down is nice, but no more than that, and would certainly not be enough for me to live through the first part of the experience.

If you are trying to find a cinnamon note in this - forget it. It is pure violet and iris, powdery-sweet, long-lasting and very elegant. You could probably get the same effect by layering Caron Aimez-Moi and Prada Infusion d'Iris. Although I find this very appealing, and of excellent quality, I would not buy it at such an exorbitant price, sadly.

I really like this. It is somewhat similar in the iris note to no 19 poudre and infusion d'iris but there is something more round in there too. I know I should love 28 La Pausa, Inf d'Iris and their likes,, but for some reason I don't. This one I like. And as could be expected, this is clearly the most expensive of the bunch...

Armani prive fragrances are not like
Tom ford private blend collection which i prefer
As a niche house for uncommon fragrances.

I can't deny that there are two scents
From Armani prive collection blended very well
And they are unique fragrances like pierre de lune
And cure amysist , I have sniffed Pierre de Lune
At Harvey nicols today and it was very comfortable
Scent and I can call it "the heaven scent ",light,
Bright and elegant at the same time.


My rate is 9/10

I love it at first, sweet and warm but then it goes soapy. Alas.

It could be me but this is exactly the same as CDG's Avignon, just less of "burned wood" in it.

9/10

INCREDIBLE. I can see this becoming my signature scent (male).

So lovely ,the violet is beautiful and it is subtle without being weak.

I really like the combination for this scent because of its special twist, having the floral contribution of lavender plus violet as its main floral note. This is one of the best floral woody musk scent I have ever tried. I got this scent after my short trip in Dubai. The Duty Free shops were really good there and choices were enormous compared to here. I happen to come across this scent because I like how the bottle looked like plus the flacon was shaped like stones. I had this collection of stones in my condominium and I just thought that it was exquisite. My fascination was bolstered with the true smell of this scent because I fell in love with it instantly.
I like how tremendously upstaging the start was. I felt there was already hints of lavender and violet combined during the first few sprays of the scent. I would say it would border between humid and floral if I were to describe the scent. The freshness of lavender scent delivered a pure uplifting experience for me. It was like expecting that the rest of the scent will be very good which it was. Then violet was just gladdening if I were to say it. There are hints of its floral smell which tends to contribute to the aromatic features of lavender but solely I would say lavender made that influence alone. I did not find any reluctance in the smell
and I like the teaming effect of the beginning. The start is literally a genuine warmth. The humid effect of lavender conforms more to the floral expectations rather than being too grassy. I did not feel the effect of its grassy attitude. I also like
how it was chronicled to have a floral smell in the scent rather than giving just a mere grassy aroma. Then there were scents of woody nuances when the scent reached dry down. Basically it was like sandalwood because it was a bit sweet regardless of its
being woody. There are woody floral musk which is more “for males” rather than a unisex scent. This is a unisex scent which so much appreciation to both gender. I truly believe this is uniquely unisex. There are hints which makes it manly however
it cannot be said to be exclusively “for men” because the beginning and even till dry down, violet and lavender kept clinging. These two gave a feminine effect on the smell. The scent has frequent light floral smell till it ends. I like the fact that
its smell was beautifully balanced giving credence to a unisex smell. This has good longevity too. I like the effect after five hours because it tends to be so floral but still retaining small hints of woody texture. It was just flawless when it ended.

I got lots of violet and no iris. On me, this creates a subtle "lipstick" note, and it reminds me of L'Artisan Drole de Roses, without the rose note. Very nice, just not for me.

I have checked in many perfume websites this cologne but i have not found it. www.worldSfragrances.com does not answers to my request nor other websites. Do any knows why?

Thanks Sara! I was trying unsuccessfully to find the cinnamon. On the Armani beauty website, however, they do indeed name the ingredient as Cassia, not Cassie. I have emailed them for a clarification.

I do agree with Veruska that it is flat in a way, as Iris-focused scents can be (Think of Hiris by Hermes). In this simple, dowdy, and decidedly unisex scent I find Violet Leaves, powdery Violet Flower and Iris (I note Iris only in the form of Orris, the aged root used as a fixative; I get no fresh Iris). Orris can create a soft powdery floral, as well as woodsy fixative notes. I do not classify this a a Floral scent in modern terms. The Armani site deems it "Sensual, Floral, & Woody". It is a little dreary, but very comforting, like a rainy day.

Interestingly, PdL's drydown is eerily similar to a bottle of vintage 40s Narcisse Noir pure parfum that came in a coffret I received as a gift, although the two bear few note similarities. I will do more research.

2/10/09 Update from Armani:


February 10, 2009


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Prive Cologne Spray in Pierre De Lune contains cassie with Florentine iris.

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A very flat and boring iris mimosa combo, made in a sweet green way. It's extremely pricey and extremely bland!

Hi there! :) Love your site. You might want to know that it is *not* cassia (china cinnamon) but Cassie - mimosa or acacia farnesiana. Cassie is used with orris and violet in powder notes and many violet/iris fragrances.